What a rip-off!
She should be fined for EVERY time she practiced without a license.
And I can comment because I hold a state issued Professional License. I would be very
PEEEE OFFF if I had to compete with someone that practiced my profession without a license, not to mention the caulis disregard for the State, the profession and unknowing patients. Did they know she wasn’t state compliant? If not then she is guilty of fraud too.
She was doing this for money not for fun why all the crocodile tears? Save your compassion for someone that deserves it.

Do the Amish care that she's not given Ed Rendell's seal of approval? Negative on that one. Here is another case of the government search for a problem that doesn't exist.

If they don't care - than I don't care. Caveat emptor!

rh

The patients know what they are getting into when they decide to use her. They use her for the very reason you mention, the competing price for child delivery that is beyond the means of many plain people. Maybe what our healthcare system needs is competition that is outside the monster.

FROM ALLNURSES.COM

"She's a lay midwife, and has been brought before the medical board 3 times now.

From personal experience (and from working with other L&D RN's that were exposed to her "bad outcomes" aka hospital transfers), she can be a very scary lay midwife, in the fact that she transfers her patients WAY too late to the hospital setting, and then doesn't bother sticking around to support her pregnant patients through the rest of their births. She takes off as quick as she drops them off at the hospital.

Why doesn't she work on becoming licensed in Pennsylvania????
"The State Board of Medicine today ordered Diane Goslin, a Pennsylvania midwife who attends the homebirths of the Amish and Plain communities, to "cease and desist from the practice of medicine and midwifery." Additionally, she was fined $11,000." Unless she defies the order, she has been told to stop delivering. Interesting to note, accarding to tv station channel 27 in Harrisburg, she recieved her certification from the North American Registry of Midwives in 1998. So what was she doing all of those other 15 or so years she claims she was practicing? She claims to have 25 years experience. Many CNM's are great. I have worked with a few. Right or wrong, PA does not license these lay midwives, therefore, we can't establish the quality standards for the care they give. I don't see them getting recognized anytime soon in our state. Even though Amish and Mennonite patients are not into litigation, the state does have an interest in protecting them from incompetent practitioners. We regulate hair stylists. This is a much bigger deal."
simple solution:

SHE is certified to PRACTCE IN OTHER STATES, GO THERE!
The North American Registry of Midwives

http://www.narm.org/mission.htm
http://allnurses.com/forums/f195/pa-fines-...0-a-252589.html